Greetings and salutations well well well well well the election is over and now my friends the real game of votes begin yes here in the United States of america the polls are finally closed all the votes that could have been cast have now been cast of the winner in the 2020 race to the white house is Television Commercials cable news channels and the business of turning politics into entertainment and why because right now millions upon millions upon millions of americans have been tuned in and scrolling through their new speeds anxiously awaiting for a winner to be crowned while state and local Election Officials feverish we tally up the numbers in the swing states like wisconsin michigan pennsylvania North Carolina making the political punditry class news Network Executives and others who make their checks off of political News Coverage well they are getting here than Jeffrey Toobin in between xoom calls and speaking of being in love with one self United States President Donald Trump
Were taking an ominous turn. Lets go to Jackie Deangelis following all of this and some of the restrictions being put in place to respond to this. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Thats right. The market is lower because of spike in cases. Weve been talking about pretty much all week. That is after we got the news pfizer or biontech come to stronger conclusion on their vaccine it would be 90 effective. There are still so many questions about this. Today on mornings with maria the biontech founder talked about the vaccine, how long it might protect people. Roughly a year or so listen. Theres a good chance that the vaccine not only will protect us but could protect from infection or virulent infection for a significant period of time. I personally expect that the vaccine could protect us with, with protocol for a year. If we learn we need to reimmunize. We could do that after one year. Reporter meantime the pfizerbiontech vaccine was not the only one in the works, right . We
To the upside. Other news coming through about approvals for future houses as well. The asx up 119 points. Thats move along and look at other Asset Classes. Crude trading yesterday with a 33 handle, hasnt had a huge rally since then. Part of that is down to russia and opec looking like they will not be hiking reduction in january. That news helping to propel oil prices up to over 97 in the last six hours or so. ,old remaining where it was just shy of the 1900 level. Thats ahead of the u. S. Election. The u. S. Dollar index marginally down, the Rate Decision coming expecting a 0. 15 cut in the base rate and we do have in anticipation of all that move slightly higher than that, and thats down to a commodity related currency and the crude price helping that along. Lets head over to new york and join karina mitchell. We start with the latest headlines on the pandemic. Starling fell to its weakest in the month, with an economy already reeling from similar measures earlier this year. France
President ial and congressional campaigns in North Carolina. More on North Carolina with tim directorDavid Mclennan of the Meredith Paul at Meredith College. With four days to go before the election, we ask you this morning, which candidate do you trust on the economy . If you are supporting the trumppence ticket, there is a line. If you are supporting the bidenharris ticket, another line. If you are supporting another candidate or you are undecided, a third line. You can also text us with your first name, city and state. Or, go to twitter and facebook. Com cspan to post your comments there. We will. Get your thoughts in just a minute lets begin with the president yesterday in florida making his pitch to voters they are on the economy. [video clip] you will have a crippling depression the likes of which you have never seen if sleepy joe becomes her president. Themour 401 k s, throw out the window because you know what is going to happen. Our stock market has a big headwind. If he wins,
Every year book tv asked member of congress about the books they are reading. Joining us now book tv is tom cole, republican from oklahoma. Congressman paul, we have asked you this question before. Youve always had a large reading lists. What is under current reading list. Tom i have just finished the splendid in the file by erik larson. Its a wonderful account of churchill and his family. Literally during the worst years of the war. When after the Prime Minister of 1940, really the date of the low countries and france. And then basically, what was like to standalone against nancy germany. Until june of 41, the russians are in a war and obviously, by december 41, the United States entered the war. Its an excellent book. It is a wonderful read about a guy that i consider the greatest person in the century. In the supreme ordeal of the career. And then i also been reading, i just picked up the great historian by the name of jean edward smith. Its a great biographer never read his biograp